Salty Dick's Uncensored
Sailor Songs
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Collected, researched and performed by Richard Docker, Ph.D
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If you want to learn
songs that deal frankly with sexual themes, find a group of men without
the company of women, open up a bottle or two, and stay close until the
singing begins. For seamen, the enforced abstinence of sea voyages created a pressure that found an outlet in the singing of bawdy songs. Such are these songs, selected from both the merchant service and naval tradition, songs of long ago as well as today, and songs from all corners of the English-speaking maritime world. |
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